RIVERSIDE: Interim appointment made for UCR Medical School

RIVERSIDE -- Phyllis A. Guze has been appointed acting vice
chancellor for medical sciences and dean of the School of Medicine
at UC Riverside, pending a national search for a permanent
appointment, university officials recently announced.

Guze has been serving as executive director of medical school
planning at the university for the last year. She holds an academic
appointment as professor of clinical medicine at UCLA's School of
Medicine.

Guze's duties will include providing leadership for gaining
accreditation of the medical school, which she calls a much-needed
resource for the Inland Empire, where health care providers are few
in relation to the rapidly growing and diverse population.

She will earn $306,933 annually and will continue her work at
UCLA, where she has been on the faculty for 34 years. She has
received numerous teaching and medical education awards and is a
1971 graduate of the University of Southern California.